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Ehrenfest

Ehrenfest proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun

Ehrenfest

  1. A surname.
    • The impossibility of explaining the Stern-Gerlach result is what he and Ehrenfest tried to show with their “little calculation”. This joint paper had a markedly Ehrenfestian character, as in it, after expounding several arguments, the issue remains open.2016, Enric Pérez, Blai Pié i Valls, “Bohr and Ehrenfest: transformations and correspondences in the early 1920s”, in European Physical Journal H, volume 41, →DOI, page 108

Words formed from Ehrenfest

Phrases with Ehrenfest

Questions about Ehrenfest

What does Ehrenfest mean?
Ehrenfest means a surname.
What part of speech is Ehrenfest?
Ehrenfest is a proper noun.

Words near Ehrenfest in the dictionary

  1. EHRC
  2. Ehrenberg
  3. Ehrenberg-Siday-Aharonov-Bohm effect
  4. Ehrenbergian
  5. Ehrenbergs
  6. Ehrenfest
  7. Ehrenfest equation
  8. Ehrenfest equations
  9. Ehrenfest model
  10. Ehrenfest models
  11. Ehrenfest paradox

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